I want to go back to Revelation Chapter 5, where we were in yesterday’s devotion. I want to go back to look once more at a group of people described simply as the “24-elders.” There are many scholars who believe these twenty-four represent the twelve tribes of Israel (the OT saints of God) and the twelve Apostles of Christ (the NT saints of God.) If that is true, then that is us!
If that is us, I want to know what I’m doing, don’t you? I noticed three things. We are gathered together around the throne of God. We are singing. We are falling down in worship.
We are all there together. All the people of God from all the ages, all the nations, Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free. We are together with Him before the throne.
And we are rejoicing, singing of His glory. I think there might even be some dancing going on. I can picture David whirling and twirling in his praise with a bus driver from Queens. There’s Paul singing loudly arm and arm with a martyr from Rwanda. Billy Graham and Martin Luther are side-by-side and Mother Teresa is hugging a Chinese believer. Maybe Peter and the Centurion are back together. And in the middle of them all—there’s you and me.
Then suddenly as we sing, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever,” all of us are overcome with the desire to fall down together and worship the Great I Am and the Lamb. [verse 13]
We are together. We sing His praises. We bow before Him in worship. We probably should start practicing that now. (Smile)
